Designing for performance weighing aesthetics and speed
"As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sebastapol CA
O'Reilly Media
2015
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. To get started, all you need are basic HTML and CSS skills and Photoshop experience. Topics include: The impact of page load time on your site, brand, and users ; Page speed basics: how browsers retrieve and render content ; Best practices for optimizing and loading images ; How to clean up HTML and CSS, and optimize web fonts Mobile-first design with performance goals by breakpoint ; Using tools to measure performance as your site evolves ; Methods for shaping an organization's performance culture"--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | 158 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1491903724 9781491903728 9781491903735 1491903708 1491903732 |